The basic flow of football is this: A team gets four plays, called downs, in order to move the ball in 10-yard increments. Each time the player with the football is tackled, or downed, the play is ...

“There is a flag,” CBS play-by-play standby Jim Nantz announced to the masses watching at home. Kevin Harlan, calling the ...

Nothing ruins a team’s momentum on the football field like a penalty. When the referees on the sidelines pull out a yellow flag from their pockets, fans know someone messed up — they just hope ...

Goodell did acknowledge that there have been discussions of players trying to draw a flag, as well as players faking injuries ...

For a few seconds Sunday night, Jim Nantz — and the CBS scorebug — gave the Bills some hope during the fourth quarter of ...